Sentences with phrase «of federal sanctions»

California's long - shot NCLB waiver is all but dead, but state officials are moving to soften the impacts of federal sanctions that are set to hit more and better performing districts.

Mr. Martin and the executives on the Civic Committee of the Chicago Commercial Club, who blame the teachers union for contributing to academic failure by imposing restrictions on teachers and administrators alike, used the threat of federal sanctions to pressure the city to put many schools into private hands, outside union jurisdiction.

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Flynn has acknowledged that he misled the federal agents by telling them that the issue of US sanctions on Russia had not been discussed when, in fact, it had.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company conspired with other dental supply companies to violate federal antitrust laws; (ii) discovery of the foregoing conduct would subject the Company to heightened regulatory scrutiny and potential criminal sanctions; and (iii) that as a result of the foregoing, Henry Schein's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Getting sanctioned by federal regulators, being banned from the business, having to shutter labs and void two years - worth of blood testing, and being sued by Walgreens, investors and customers, is not how entrepreneurship is supposed to work.

The move, first reported by Bloomberg Law, would scale back a 2013 Obama - era policy, known as Directive 307, which had expanded the DOL's ability to investigate and sanction federal contractors that showed a pattern of paying female workers and employees of color less than their white male colleagues.

Wells Fargo's risk management already resulted in an unprecedented Federal Reserve sanction of having its growth limited.

Recently the social form of this utilitarianism has been given high sanction in an official statement made by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

He is suing the NCAA — which relied heavily on the Freeh report in its punishment of Penn State — under federal antitrust laws, claiming that the organization had no business sanctioning the school for failing to stop a retired coach from abusing children.

The Federal Government may sanction Kenya Airways for conveying a corpse from the Ebola - affected Democratic Republic of Congo to Nigeria.

A New York federal judge slammed legal titans Michael Mukasey and Rudy Giuliani at a hearing yesterday, saying they seemed «dismissive» of the serious nature of the charges against their client who is accused of helping Iran dodge U.S. sanctions.

A New York federal judge asked Rudy Giuliani and Michael Mukasey for supplemental information on their representation of Turkish - Iranian financier Reza Zarrab, who is accused of helping Iran dodge U.S. sanctions, after finding the lawyers» affidavits failed to answer all the judge's questions.

It is one of seven test sites sanctioned by the Federal Aviation Administration and an anchor for a 50 - mile corridor that allows drones to fly beyond line of sight.

A Manhattan federal jury convicted a Turkish banker Wednesday of participating in a multibillion - dollar scheme to evade Iran sanctions in a sensitive case that has roiled diplomatic relations between the United States and the president of Turkey.

Sessions, the House Rules Committee chairman from Texas» 32nd District, has for years blocked bipartisan legislation in the House to protect state - sanctioned medical marijuana vendors from federal crackdown, not letting it out of committee for a floor vote.

«DOMA undermines both the public and private significance of state - sanctioned same - sex marriages; for it tells those couples, and all the world, that their otherwise valid marriages are unworthy of federal recognition,» Kennedy wrote in the opinion.

His plan to «grow industrial manufacturing and high - tech jobs through enforcement of intellectual property and enforcement of the is standing order for compliance with federal sanctions against products from other countries like China,» can potentially end poverty, crime, the heroin epidemic, and even the Syrian refugee crisis, Kravtsov said.

Osborne sent a letter in 2012 to Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, in an attempt to help HSBC's leadership avoid criminal charges over the bank's involvement in laundering drug money and in channelling money to countries under economic sanctions.

Speaking to newsmen immediately after withdrawing the quit notice issued to Igbos, spokesperson of CNG, Abudl - Azeez Suleiman, said, «In the meantime, we shall firmly pursue our petitions to the United Nations and the Nigerian federal authorities calling for the appropriate sanction of Nnamdi Kanu, other IPOB leaders and their sponsors in addition to labelling them a terror outfit.

The bill reflects an unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers who see the Common Core Learning Standards as a federal intrusion on local decision - making and Democratic lawmakers who oppose the use of standardized tests to sanction teachers and schools.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Federal Government to sanction the Republic of South Africa for Xenophobic attacks against Nigerians residing and working there.

Penalties for Frivolous Lawsuits — Vote Passed (230 - 188, 11 Not Voting) The bill would modify federal rules governing civil lawsuits to require federal courts to impose sanctions on parties that violate the existing prohibition on the filing of frivolous lawsuits, with such sanctions to include monetary penalties to cover the other party's attorneys» fees and other costs.

Reacting to the submission, Saraki warned that the Senate would ensure Malami is sanctioned in line with the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, if he refuses Committee's invitation yet again.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he doubts that there will be federal sanctions for schools that have high rates of students who boycotted standardized tests this spring.

Nothing shouts hypocrisy from the mountaintop like right wingers trying to ram through a Federal law to officially sanction government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens.

An Iranian - Turkish gold dealer hired two Trump confidants — former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.S. AG Michael Mukasey — to help defend him against U.S. charges of using his network of companies to circumvent federal sanctions on Iran.

A Manhattan federal jury convicted a Turkish banker of participating in a multibillion - dollar scheme to evade Iran sanctions in a case that has roiled diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkish President Recep Erdogan.

Yesterday, a federal judge recommended dismissing the wrongful termination suit that spawned the perjury allegations and called for sanctioning one of the lawyers who pursued them.

The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has stated that the Federal Government would impose severe sanctions on telecoms service providers said to have defrauded Nigerians...

One of Manhattan's hottest properties, 650 Fifth Ave., is secretly controlled by the Iranian government in violation of US sanctions, government lawyers told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday.

Owners of the cart, called the Wandering Dago, sued the state and are now asking a federal judge to sanction the state for «spoliation» of emails sent by former Cuomo adviser Bennet Liebman to officials in the executive chamber.

State education commissioner MaryEllen Elia warned that while there would be no penalties this year for districts with large opt - out movements, such as the withholding of federal funding, districts could be sanctioned if the movement continues.

As a result of a landmark settlement between the French Bank BNP Paribas and regulators at the State and Federal level, New York State will be paid over $ 3 billion dollars by BNP Paribas due to their repeated violations of U.S. laws and sanctions.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he doubts that there will be federal sanctions for schools that have high rates of students who boycotted standardized tests this spring.

A bipartisan draft bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the original name of the federal education legislation, would bar the federal government from requiring states to use student test scores in teacher evaluations or forcing closure or other sanctions on struggling schools.

The Senate had on February 14, 2018, asked 63 agencies and parastatals under the Federal Government to submit details of their proposed 2018 budget within one week or risk sanctions.

Prof. Dankofa, among other things, in suit KDH / KAD / 236 / 2018 is praying the court to «declare that the action of the respondents (Kaduna State Government and Kaduna Geographic Information Service, KADGIS) in arrogating to themselves the power to punitively sanction the Applicants (Hunkuyi and his Company, Muna Investment Ltd) property, even if the Applicants were purportedly in default of payment of either ground rent or land use charge or for any other reason constitute a gross violation of Applicant Fundamental Human Right guaranteed under section 43 (1) and 46 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) and therefore illegal, unconstitutional, null and void.»

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

Newark — A federal district judge has declared New Jersey's «moment - of - silence» law an unconstitutional attempt to circumvent the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on state - sanctioned prayer in public schools.

As a condition of the receipt of federal funds to support the education of individual students, schools should be required to participate in an open enrollment process conducted by a state - sanctioned authority.

Brownstein also fails to point out that districts that repeatedly circumvent the letter of the law will eventually come under more rigorous state sanctions and possibly federal sanctions.

Neither the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) nor the states impose direct sanctions on members of school boards that oversee large numbers of underperforming schools.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

This exacerbated the inherent risk - aversion and «box - checking» request for proposal processes in state education offices and school districts by adding federal sanctions to the list of risks they already faced in their procurement processes.

The Supreme Court's ruling on vouchers sanctioned a hands - off market approach to schooling while the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) laid the heaviest federal hand on state and local control of schools in U.S. history.

We propose that as a condition of the receipt of federal funds to support the education of individual students, schools be required to participate in an open enrollment process conducted by a state - sanctioned authority.

Even the 1994 federal Title I reforms, which required states to develop the three major prongs of an effective accountability system (academic standards, tests linked to the standards, and a mixture of assistance and sanctions for low - performing schools) did little to stimulate California into action.

NEA Launches NCLB Reform Effort Many educators have expressed concerns about the requirements and sanctions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and the National Education Association has adopted a plan to reform the law, which it wants Congress to hear.

Federal law requires 95 percent participation in the annual assessment of third through eighth graders, and districts that fall below that threshold can face sanctions from their state and the federal Education DepaFederal law requires 95 percent participation in the annual assessment of third through eighth graders, and districts that fall below that threshold can face sanctions from their state and the federal Education Depafederal Education Department.

Still, the number of students not taking the exams is significant because both federal and state officials have indicated sanctions could result if too few students take state tests.